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"A Lenten Observance Checklist"
We are already two and a half weeks into Lent. It is a good time for a "status – check" on my Lenten observance: Am I coming to realize more fully just who Jesus is, what role He should have in my life, and what share He wants me to have in His mission? Both ...
January 2002
With New Year's Day, 2002, we have completed the two years of transition into the twenty-first century and the third millennium of the Gospel.
During 2000, the Year of the ...
marzo 2002: "Una evaluación de nuestra observancia cauresmal"
Llevamos ya dos semanas en el tiempo de Cuaresma. Es un buen momento para una "evaluación de nuestra observancia cuaresmal" : ¿Estoy tomando conciencia de quién es realmente Jesús?, ¿Qué papel debe ocupar Él en mi vida? Y ¿Qué función quiere que comparta ...
Enero 2002
El día de año Nuevo del 2002 marcó el final de dos años de transición al siglo XXI y al tercer milenio del Evangelio.
Durante el 2000, el año del Gran Jubileo, el Papa Juan Pablo II nos guió a través de una ...
Vocations Prayer
A moment of your day...
Iraq: 2,000 Christians killed, 600,000 have fled nation since 2003
In the seven years since the Iraq War was launched, 2,000 Christians have been murdered and 600,000 have fled Iraq, according to Fides, the news agency of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. 44% of Iraqi refugees are Christians, and many of the 600,000 Christians who remain ...